Picking Out a New Bathroom Floor

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Tarkett NA for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

We are add it again with bathroom renovations. This time we’re upstairs in the main bath that we use every day. You’ve all heard my wishes for this space before – primarily to get a smaller vanity – and guess what? My wishes are coming true! Here is a dream plan I made up for the room.

Numbers 1 and 4 were possible floor options, depending on if we decided to rip out the tile that’s currently there, which would be a big, messy job. Not to mention, we don’t know what we’d find underneath it. There’s always an old house surprise someplace.

If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll see the amazing vanity we got on sale last week. It was exactly the one I wanted (number 4 above), and was a special order somebody never picked up. Too bad for them, great for us!

Since we already have the toilet, my other wish for this space was to replace the floor. In one of my happiest moments as a homeowner, I uncovered the original 1 inch white hexagon tile floor and was ecstatic until I wasn’t… The floor had a large crack across the middle of it and the corners were missing tile all together. They’d been replaced by concrete. Not so pretty.

Since we’ve been trying to figure out what to do about that floor, I’ve been searching for easy options on how to either replace it or cover it {not my first choice, but my husband’s}. Today I get to tell you about Tarkett Flooring, which is a company that sells many flooring products and I get to show you how I picked out a new floor for our forever-long bathroom renovation. Here is how to easily select a new floor for your space.

Find Inspiration

First, visit Tarkett online here. They have a gallery of photos where you can see pictures of the flooring in real homes. It’s actually really fun to look at colors, patterns and types of floors you’d never picture in a space. You can see what a darker floor looks like with white cabinets and what a wood floor looks like in a bedroom.

Photo by Tarkett

If you are the type of person that like picking the color of an item first like I do, the the iSelect feature will be for you. The products are organized into six color pallets, so you can choose your favorite and match the kitchen to the dining room and the dining room to the hallway. See the video here. I personally like the Hushed Conversations and Evening Conversations. Any that stand out to you?

Photo by Tarkett

Visualize It

Once you find something you love, you can put that floor in a room in your house. Tarkett has a visualizer called RoomVue and I love this feature. It’s like seeing what the product will look like in your home before you buy it. You can select different rooms, change the wall and baseboard colors and save the project to view later. Take a look at the floor I selected for our bathroom! It’s kind of perfect and looks exactly like the options number 4 I dreamed about above! Plus our walls in the bathroom are that light blue-gray color, which you can edit in the RoomVue function.

This is a vinyl sheet that is in the FiberFloor Easy Living collection. It’s grey hexagon tiles, and I loved it so much I actually went to my local retailer and bought it! FiberFloor is very thin, but very comfortable. We’ve used this type of product in a family member’s bathroom renovation, in our basement bathroom and will now use it here. It’s softer than ceramic tile and is allergy free. The roll-out option is perfect for us {although not a requirement of this sponsored post}, plus it was on sale locally and I couldn’t resist it. I think it will work perfectly in the space and will avoid us ripping out a 114 year old floor that we don’t know what’s below.

Here is the floor in person. I can’t believe I found a roll out vinyl that looks exactly like I wanted. Now we get to have the look of hexagon tiles without ripping out a 114 year old floor and dealing with the mess, expense and unknowns of home renovation. You don’t even have to glue this floor down. You order the size you need, it rolls out and the baseboards secure it down.

*Update* Since I’ve had a few people ask about this flooring, here is the information on the sample in the store. It is called Rich Onyx in the Easy Living Collection by Tarkett Flooring.

About Tarkett Flooring

• Tarkett offers a design palette that suits your style
• FiberFloor is designed with woven fiberglass, foam and tough, resilient wear layers that stand up to water, moisture, scuffs, scratches and indentations.
• Tarkett Luxury Floors, including vinyl tiles, are available in tiles with-or-without grout. They also sell planks, adhered floors and floating floors.
• They have a chat feature if you want to talk with someone from the company.
• Their flooring is water, moisture and spill resistant.
• Tarket has more than 10,000 retailsers around the country. To find a retailer near you, enter your zip code here. I got a chance to see the floor in person at a local carpet store.

Watch a video on Introducing the iSelect® System from Tarkett North America on Vimeo.

Be sure to like Tarkett on Facebook and follow Tarkett on Pinterest and Twitter. Come back soon to see our next {and hopefully last} renovation of the bathroom at least for now. We’ll be removing the toilet and vanity, then replacing the floor and putting in a new vanity and toilet. I can’t wait. Finally, my bathroom makeover dreams come true 🙂